The Time-Killing Machine
March 26th, 2010
Feel tired and cranky today. Not enough sleep and definitely not enough food. Being hungry is a surprisingly good motivation for programming though. When all I want is the time to pass working seems to be a great default, time-killing activity. I even finished up version 1.0 of the database administration script that I was creating. Think like phpMyAdmin except you have to create a file that explicitly chooses the database and you get to choose how you want each datafield displayed: none, checkbox, textarea, dropdown list populated from another table(you explicitly select the table, id field, and display field), time of day (converts timestamps into hour/minute/ampm and back), or a textbox(default). It all works really well and you can make a whole new page that edits a database table in just a minute or two.